Prince William County police are evacuating three Woodbridge area schools after they were locked down earlier today.
Students are being loaded onto school buses at Marumsco Hills Elementary School and will be taken to nearby Fred M. Lynn Middle School to reunite with their parents, according to Irene Cromer of Prince William County Schools.
“Fred Lynn is considered the reunification site,” said Cromner.
Two other schools in the area, Elizabeth Vaughn Elementary and Woodbridge Middle School will be evacuated too. Cromer said those students would most likely be taken to Lynn as well.
An automated phone call made to parents of Woodbridge Middle School students about 5:45 p.m. today said children at that school would be evacuated beginning at 6 p.m.
The message did not include where parents could meet their children.
More than 60 parents who lined up outside of Marumsco Hills Elementary before3 p.m. to pick up their children only found a police barricade and officials telling them to wait.
“I’ve got one little one in there and we are just waiting here for him to get out,” said Miguel Benitez, who was waiting for his son to be released from the school.
Benetiez said he and his wife, Monique, moved from Los Angeles more than a year ago to escape the problems of the inner city. He said this situation reminds him of living in Southern California.
Just after 1:30 p.m. today police closed roads and diverted traffic away from the schools after they received a report that a suspect in a recent murder at nearby Bayside Avenue may have barricaded himself inside his home in the 2100 block of Culpeper Drive.
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